Chandrashekhar Hariharan, Architect, Biodiversity Conservation India Limited, Bengaluru

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Chandrashekar Hariharan is head of Biodiversity Conservation (India) Limited (BCIL) Alternate Technology Foundation. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant but moved away to become a financial journalist for a couple of years. Hariharan has always been interested in nurturing watersheds. Prior to his involvement with BCIL, he has worked on such projects in Uttaranchal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Nagaland, and so on. With BCIL, he helped launch in several towns a program for primary treatment of sewage water with a string of chemical-free, baffles-based tanks that reduced the TDS (total dissolved solids) in the wastewater before discharging it into nearby streams/rivers.

Hariharan believes that while people are getting increasingly eco-sensitive, they still flounder when it comes to applying principles of conservation to their daily lives. He has always worked, therefore, to provide people not just with awareness of environmental issues, but opportunities to practice this awareness on a daily basis.